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The reported percentage of the women in the sample who reported childhood abuse developing MS was 0.49%, compared to 0.36% in the women who didn't report childhood abuse. So, if the 0.36% incidence in the women who didn't report childhood abuse had applied to the 14477 women who reported...

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2022/03/08/jnnp-2021-328700 Abstract Objective To study whether exposure to childhood emotional, sexual or physical abuse is associated with subsequent multiple sclerosis (MS) development. Methods A nationwide, prospective cohort study based on participants...

(I'm basing my comments only on the info in the article.). This has the hallmarks of a company selling snake oil. They are planning to do a market research study - this seems to involve asking consumers if they liked the product. Studies like these tend to produce positive statements that are...

from the NZ Doctor "In this article from the Public Health Expert blog, we review the impact of Aotearoa NZ’s Covid-19 response strategies on mortality patterns during the first 2 years of the pandemic. We find that NZ experienced an increase in life expectancy, decreased winter mortality, and...

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Oh, for goodness sake. I haven't been tracking Gez Medinger closely, but I thought he had been reasonably sensible. Seems he's succumbing to the idea that personality and trauma are responsible for getting Long Covid. I guess the idea that you can overcome Long Covid by fixing your...

If you or anyone wants to do a project like that, please consider whether it might be able to be part of the forum somehow. I expect the committee would be happy to consider ideas.

I am surprised that Paul Garner would draw attention to this poor study of 'pain reprocessing therapy'. If I was one of the select group of people that Paul Garner allows to reply to his nonsense, I would say: 1. It is interesting that Paul Garner chose to praise this particular study, as it...

It is surprisingly good. Of course there's the question of whether PT's really need to be involved and whether people with Long Covid really need detailed plans. But this article makes the point that an educated PT can advocate for the patient, informing other health care professionals and...

Post-acute COVID-19 is characterized by gut viral antigen persistence in inflammatory bowel diseases, 2022, Zollner et al An interesting paper from an Austrian team.

To me, this idea makes some sense. I think the strongest argument I've heard against this idea of persistence of pathogen antigens is that the antigens would break down over time, the body would recycle and eliminate them. So, perhaps it might work for an illness of months or even a few years...

Thanks @LarsSG Seems like an important finding.

I thought that was worth reading; a very good account of mild Long Covid. There was the observation that a lot of athletes are getting Long Covid. Which raises speculation: Did exertion while ill increase their risk of LC? Did their high level of fitness somehow make their immune system too...

I have to admire whoever in English National Opera came up with this scheme to cope with the vagaries of being in the 'live entertainment' industry during a global pandemic i.e. move into the health care industry. Lest people new to the forum feel we have been overly harsh in the assessment of...

Interesting study at around the one year mark. This is a bit scary: There are % errors in Table 1. Figure 1: Box and whisker plots of statistically significant hemostatic, endothelial and inflammatory parameters Also: Some questions from our point of view are, do these results...

Linking the EMEA News thread: there's a webinar coming up focused on improving things in the Eastern European part of the world.

Hillary Johnson wrote Oslers web. There's an interview with her by @ScottTriGuy linked here: My podcast: Medical Error Interviews

I thought this was worth posting for a couple of reasons: One is that a rehabilitation robot is being used. That puts a whole new spin on the idea of moving as many patients away from expensive doctors and towards less expensive rehabilitation staff. I wonder exactly what the robot can do...

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05130736?term=balance&recrs=ab&cond=me/cfs&draw=2&rank=2 Recruiting Sponsor: Poznan University of Medical Sciences Collaborators: EGZOTech sp. z o.o.; Szpital Wojewódzki w Poznaniu Condition: Post-viral fatigue syndrome The aim of the study is to...

Existing symptom measuring questionnaires (6 of them) were found to be inadequate: Patient involvement